Automattic, the company that created Wordpress, just raised $29.5 million in Series B funding. The New York Times is among the investors.

Digg made waves this week by tweaking their algorithm and ticking off some power users. This new algorithm seems to skew the front page and push power users into the background, even if they get a lot of people digging them. One user’s take? They’re trying to even the playing field for newer diggers who may be heading off to Mixx.

Frank Kern has another free video out for Mass Control. And this may be the best one yet. Frank is giving away more great internet marketing advice – for free – than we’ve seen in a long time. Now, you can go directly to a blog where all the Mass Control videos are available. His launch is coming soon, so watch the videos (and take notes) while they’re still available! And StomperNet is running a contest to see who can identify the Mass Control strategies within Frank’s killer videos — with the 40-hour StomperNet home study course going to 5 winners.

Check out the latest free line newsletter from StomperNet, and the contest, here.

Noca is a company started by ex-Visa employees who are entering the online payment world by offering free transaction processing in their own micropayment system and bypassing credit cards. Right now, they’re beta testing two applications for micropayments on Facebook. Of course, processing online charges without the 2-3% and $.30 per transaction charge is kind of the Holy Grail for e-merchants. To Noca: Good luck, guys!